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The maiden took the tiny flowerAnd nursed it with her tears:Lo! he who left her in that hourCame not in after years.Unto a hero's death he rode'Mid shower of fire and shot;But in the maiden's heart abodeThe flower, forget-me-not.

And when he came not with the restFrom out the years of blood,Closely unto her widowed breastShe pressed a faded bud;Oh, there is love and there is pain,And there is peace, God wot,--And these dear three do live againIn sweet forget-me-not.

'T is to an unmarked grave to-dayThat I should love to go,--Whether he wore the blue or gray,What need that we should know?"He loved a woman," let us say,And on that sacred spot,To woman's love, that lives for aye,We'll strew forget-me-not.

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